May/June 2014

Amid a crisis of violence against Indigenous women in Canada, this issue’s cover story documents decolonization projects in women’s emergency shelters. Alessandra Naccarato reveals the hope of inner-city beekeeping. Laura Ellyn has a comic on the gendering of pain and depression. Aleksandra McHugh explores the great neoliberal education mash-up. And we bring together Ai Weiwei and the Walking With Our Sisters project. These stories – and more!

Last November, the Philippines was struck by the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall. From Haiti, activists reached out to help Filipinos contend with the Western aid response that so often wrests power from the people.

In China and in Canada, artists are finding powerful new ways to commemorate the victims of ongoing government policies and inaction, to honour the dead and the missing, and to call for accountability.